BILL NUMBER: AB 1136	CHAPTERED  10/10/99

	CHAPTER   709
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   OCTOBER 10, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   OCTOBER 6, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 7, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   SEPTEMBER 2, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 27, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Strom-Martin
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Davis, Havice, Hertzberg, Jackson,
Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Mazzoni, Robert Pacheco, Washington,
Wildman, and Zettel)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Alpert, Baca, Costa, McPherson, Ortiz, and
Solis)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 1999

   An act to add Article 10 (commencing with Section 17077.10) to
Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of, and to add Section 17096 to, the
Education Code, relating to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1136, Strom-Martin.  School facilities:  pupil safety:
classroom telephones.
   Existing law, the Field Act, requires school buildings, as
defined, to meet various safety specifications.  Existing law, the
Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (Greene Act), provides
funding to school districts to finance the construction, as defined,
of school facilities.  Existing law, the State Relocatable Classroom
Law of 1979, requires the State Allocation Board to lease portable
classrooms to qualifying school districts and county superintendents
of schools.  The State Relocatable Classroom Law of 1979 authorizes
any qualifying school district, or under a joint powers agreement
between any combination of one or more school districts or county
superintendents of schools, to purchase portable classrooms.
   This bill, so as to enhance pupil safety, would require,
commencing with applications submitted on or after January 1, 2000,
any school district applying for funding pursuant to the Greene Act
to include in its plans and specifications for the construction or
fabrication of a new or modernized school building, as defined, that
includes the construction or fabrication of new or modernized
classrooms, a hard-wired connection to a public switched network in
each new or modernized classroom.
   This bill would require, commencing with leases entered into on or
after January 1, 2000, the plans and specifications for portable
classrooms funded under the State Relocatable Classroom Law of 1979
to include a provision for a telephone in each portable classroom.
The bill would provide that these requirements may be met by
utilizing wireless technology  equal to a hard-wired connection to a
public switched telephone network.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Article 10 (commencing with Section 17077.10) is added
to Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of the Education Code, to read:

      Article 10.  School Project Safety Components

   17077.10.  (a) It is a goal of the Legislature to eventually
enhance pupil safety by equipping all elementary and secondary school
classrooms with a telephone hook connected to a public switched
network.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that as of 1999, there are
approximately 205,000 classrooms in California's elementary and
secondary schools and only a small, undetermined percentage of these
classrooms have telephones.  The Legislature finds and declares that
in order to protect the safety of pupils, schools should be
integrated into local emergency, information, and interagency health
and safety, networks with up-to-date telecommunications systems.
Connection to these systems would also facilitate community and
parent interaction with teachers and schools, and thereby further
enhance pupil safety.
   (c) "School building" as used in this section means and includes
any building used, or designed to be used, for elementary or
secondary school purposes and constructed, reconstructed, altered, or
added to, by the state or by any city or city and county, or by any
political subdivision, or by any school district of any kind within
the state, or by any regional occupational center or program,
established by or authorized to act by any agreement under joint
exercise of power, or by the United States government, or any agency
thereof.  This definition includes any fabrication, construction, or
alteration of a relocatable school building.
   (d) Commencing with applications submitted on or after January 1,
2000, any school district applying for funding pursuant to this
chapter shall include in its plans and specifications for the
construction or fabrication of a new or modernized school building,
that includes the construction or fabrication of new or modernized
classrooms, a hard-wired connection to a public switched telephone
network in each new or modernized classroom.  However, a school
district may meet this requirement by utilizing wireless technology
equal to a hard-wired connection to a public switched telephone
network.
  SEC. 2.  Section 17096 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   17096.  Commencing with leases entered into on or after January 1,
2000, the plans and specifications for portable classrooms funded
pursuant to this chapter shall include a provision for a telephone in
each portable classroom.  The connection from the portable classroom
to a public switched telephone network, as set forth in Section
17077.10, shall be made by the school district at the time of the
installation of the building.  However, a school district may meet
this requirement by utilizing wireless technology equivalent to a
hard-wired connection to a public switched telephone network.
